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applicants

• Must be a US Citizen
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; Minimum educational level:
  Associates Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (Preferred)
  Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
• CBP Background Investigation (including police and credit check) required and must either hold a current DoD secret clearance or be able to qualify for one.

• Minimum of three (3) years of technical experience with Distributed File System (DFS) administration and replication in a large complex environment.
• Solid working knowledge in a large and complex environment is required. This must include x86 hardware, NetApp Storage, Windows 2003/2008, server migration tools P2V process and recent Windows 2003/2008 Server administration. * A significant working history of software product installation, customization, testing, software maintenance, and problem diagnosis is also required.

Experience:

• Six (6) + years hands-on experience supporting server infrastructure in a large enterprise environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Independent problem-solving, self-direction.
• Maintain Active Directory domain; create and maintain Group Policies; support member servers in the
  domain; support virtual servers using VMware
• Automation/scripting is highly desirable.
• Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise and Standard)
• SAN/NAS technologies
• Virtual Center system administration
• Strong Scripting Skills (i.e. Perl, VB, Power Shell, etc.)
• ESX 3.0/3.5
• VMware Converter, P2V VMotion
  Windows Scripting Host (WSH) using VBScript, ADSI, and WMI.
• Experience with Windows clustering and storage configuration.
• Familiarity with Windows file permissions/ACLs, and Distributed File System Namespaces (DFS-N) and Replication (DFS-R).
• Understanding of Volume Shadow Copy and Backup technologies.
• Windows server and Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware.
• Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).
• Visual Basic 2008 and ASP.Net.

Our client has an immediate contract position for a Sr. Microsoft Systems Engineer to perform engineer design, capacity planning, implementation and support of Systems infrastructure, Server and Network systems. The Systems Engineer will participate on project teams and also become involved in operational projects aimed at improving business partner and technical operations. The major focus of this position will be to Support the O&M and consolidate Windows Servers to an existing ESX environment. Other responsibilities of this position include test, tune and document the deployment and environment for support. Provide third-level support, project handover documentation/training and general technical guidance to the Support teams. Applies senior diagnostic techniques to identify problems, investigate causes and recommend solutions to correct common failures. Escalates and explains complex issues to non-technical management. He/she must have strong customer service awareness as well as written and oral communications proficiency.

Works closely with business partners at all levels. Role requires developed communication and diplomacy skills. Partners with Field employees and management at all levels. Builds relationships and partners with external vendors.

Technical Responsibilities

This engineer is to be well versed in DFS-R and Active Directory.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing purchase justifications, training users in complex topics, making presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with upper management.

• A solid understanding of an operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use performance analysis to tune systems.
• Take on a creative and visionary role, promote new ideas, strategies, technologies and concepts to improve quality and reduce costs
• Conduct environmental evaluation, coordination, scheduling, and execution of host migrations to SAN Storage.
• Maintain the highest level of availability, reliability and performance for VMware and associated products

• Software product installation, configuration management, maintenance, testing and documentation of VMware and related products
• Conduct and participate in meetings, reviews and process improvement activities
• Resolve problems, conduct advanced research, and identify product/service innovations
• Release management of Hot Fixes and Service Packs for production deployment by another team
• Provide training to other engineers
  Compile and report metrics for management
  Cross train into other software products when needs arise
• Produce environmental architecture and standard operating procedure documentation.
• Monitor complex systems and recommend solutions to improve effectiveness.
• Ensure preventative maintenance schedules are performed and all equipment is maintained to a high standard.
• A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts.
• Ensure security and disaster recovery backups are taken on a regular basis and manage data storage and security.

Project Responsibilities:

• Support the planning and installation of new systems and upgrades.
• Physical-to-virtual conversion of Windows servers.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of project management and full project life cycle.
• Proactively identify problems and potential areas for improvement and translate those into work requests/business proposals.
• Provide input to a task level work plan, identifying activities and hours estimates for all systems development lifecycle phases of the effort.
• Develop technical design specifications.
• Participate in vendor software evaluations as necessary.

Communication:

• Discusses and presents information and issues to IT management and business partners.
• Able to negotiate with business partners and influence others to build consensus and achieve business objectives
• Able to interface on technical issues with our business partners in business terms

• Generally sets own day to day work objectives. Provides guidance to all support teams. Partners with IT Project Manager and Business Analyst team to ensure business requirements are fully met. Requires strong analytical and problem solving abilities. Requires strong attention to detail and robust business knowledge. Judgments must be based on the analysis of factual information in order to make educated business decisions.